Motion Picture Association · Alignment & Safety
MPA & ByteDance IP pact
A memorandum signed 17 August putting global guardrails on how ByteDance models use film and TV property - covering Seedance video, Seedream image, and outputs across TikTok, CapCut and Dreamina. It follows February, when the MPA demanded restrictions after Seedance produced realistic AI actors. Notably not a licensing deal: no studio is paid for what the models already learned.
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